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Lufthansa mainline historical fleet; Aircraft Total Introduced Retired Notes Airbus A300B2-1C: 6 1976 1988 Airbus A300B4-2C: 5 1977 1987 Airbus A300-600R: 15 1987 2009 Airbus A310-200: 13 1983 1995 Worldwide A310 launch customer alongside Swissair. Airbus A310-300: 12 1989 2005 Airbus A330-200: 5 2002 2006 Airbus A340-200: 8 1993 2003
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1920s
Deutsche Luft Hansa was founded on 6 January 1926 in Berlin. The name of the company means "German Hansa of the Air". The Hansa or Hanseatic League dominated maritime trade in the Baltic Sea area for hundreds of years, and is well regarded in Germany to this day. The airline was created by the merger of Deutscher Aero Lloyd, formerly Deutsche Luft-Reederei (1917 to 1923), and Junkers Luftverkehr (c. 1919) in 1926.The two companies, Germany's largest airlines at the time, were forced to merge...
1930s
Even though the early years of the decade saw a difficult financial situation due to the Great Depression, Deutsche Luft Hansa further expanded its international route network in South America, and launched scheduled flights from Germany to the Middle East. Politically, the company leaders were linked to the rising Nazi Party; an aircraft was made available to Adolf Hitler for his campaign for the 1932 presidential election free of any charge. The Nazi party used footage of those flights for...
During World War II
With the outbreak of the war on 1 September 1939 all civilian flight operations of Luft Hansa came to an end, and the aircraft fleet came under command of the Luftwaffe, along with most staff. The company focused on aircraft maintenance and repair. There were still scheduled passenger flights within Germany and to occupied or neutral countries, but bookings were restricted and served the demands of warfare. During the later years of the war, most passenger aircraft were converted to military...
European passenger flights
From 1926 until the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Deutsche Luft Hansa built up an extensive network centred on its base at Berlin Tempelhof Airport covering many German cities and towns, as well as the major European cities. There were early interline agreements which granted Luft Hansa passengers access to the flight network of leading European airlines of that time and vice versa. The agreements were with air lines including Aerotransport, Ad Astra Aero, Adria Aerolloyd, Aero Oy, Air Un...
During World War II
Due to the war and the de facto end of commercial air transport in Germany, Luft Hansa operated scheduled passenger flights only on some domestic trunk routes and international services on a limited number of routes to occupied or Axis-affiliated countries. These routes deteriorated during the war as Germany came closer to defeat. As of 1940/41, the following destinations were served. At that time, interline agreements were in force with Iberia, Aeroflot, Malert, LARES (Romania), Aero Oy (Fin...
Cooksley, Peter (September–October 1996). "Celestial Coaches: Dornier's Record Breaking Komet and Merkur". Air Enthusiast (65): 20–24. ISSN 0143-5450.Joachim Wachtel, Günter Ott: Im Zeichen des Kranichs. Die Geschichte der Lufthansa von den Anfängen bis 1945. Piper, München 2016, ISBN 978-3-492-05788-2.Lutz Budraß: Adler und Kranich. Die Lufthansa und ihre Geschichte 1926-1955. Blessing, München 2016, ISBN 978-3-89667-481-4.People also ask
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Current Fleet. Historic Fleet. Lufthansa (IATA: LH / ICAO: DLH) is an airline headquartered in Cologne, Germany founded in 1953 currently operating a fleet of 323 aircraft with an average age of 13.73 years.
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Sep 29, 2023 · Including subsidiaries, the firm holds a significant fleet of over 700 planes. The name and logo of Lufthansa can be traced back to the formation of Deutsche Luft Hansa in 1926. This airline was the flag carrier of Germany until the end of World War II.
Jan 28, 2023 · Founded in 1926, Lufthansa was the first major German airline to emerge after World War 1, and since then has become one of the largest airlines in Europe. This blog post will take a closer look at the history of Lufthansa throughout its 94 years of operation.
